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Sexton Blake

Slang Cockney rhyming slang · East London

cake


SIMPLE

“Would you like a slice of Sexton Blake?”

CONTEXTUAL

“She baked a delicious chocolate Sexton Blake for the office birthday party.”

COMPLEX

“After the long dinner, the host served a rich, fruit-filled Sexton Blake that delighted every guest at the table.”


Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    cake and gingerbread

    An easy or pleasant task or experience; a piece of cake.

  2. 02

    cake crumbs

    Hardly anything.

  3. 03

    cake walk

    Something extremely easy.

  4. 04

    cakes and ale

    The simple material pleasures of life.

  5. 05

    eat one's cake and have it too

    Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.

  6. 06

    give and take

    [Cockney slang]cake

  7. 07

    have one's cake and eat it too

    To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).

  8. 08

    icing on the cake

    A thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad.

Last updated April 28, 2026